Intel Pentium Gold 8500 Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Pentium Gold 8500 has 5 cores with 6 threads and is based on the 12. gen of the Intel Pentium series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1744 socket and was released in Q1/2022. The Intel Pentium Gold 8500 scores 1,527 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 3,417 points.
CPU lineageThe segment in which we have classified the Intel Pentium Gold 8500. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Pentium Gold 8500. |
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| Name: | Intel Pentium Gold 8500 |
| Family: | Intel Pentium |
| CPU group: | Intel Pentium Gold 8000 |
| Segment: | Mobile |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | -- |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Intel Pentium Gold 8500 has 5 CPU cores and can calculate 6 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium Gold 8500 is 1.00 GHz (4.40 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 5 / 6 |
| Core architecture: | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| A-Core: | 1x Golden Cove |
| B-Core: | 4x Gracemont |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | Yes |
| Overclocking: | No |
| A-Core Frequency: | 1.00 GHz (4.40 GHz) |
| B-Core Frequency: | 0.70 GHz (3.30 GHz) |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Pentium Gold 8500 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium Gold 8500 uses the Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU), which has 384 texture shaders and 48 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU) |
| GPU frequency: | 0.20 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 0.80 GHz |
| Execution units: | 48 |
| Shader: | 384 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 64 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Direct X: | 12 |
| Technology: | 10 nm |
| Release date: | Q2/2020 |
Hardware codec support
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode |
| VP9: | Decode / Encode |
| AV1: | Decode |
| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | DDR4-3200 DDR5-4800 LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR5-5200 |
| Max. Memory: | 64 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | 76.8 GB/s |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | 4.0 x 14 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 9 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 9 W |
| TDP (PL2): | 29 W |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | 100 °C |
Technical details
The Intel Pentium Gold 8500 is made in 10 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 11.25 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 10 nm |
| Chip design: | Monolithic |
| Socket: | BGA 1744 |
| L2-Cache: | 3.25 MB |
| L3-Cache: | 8.00 MB |
| Architecture: | Alder Lake U |
| Operating systems: |
| Virtualization: | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 |
| Release date: | Q1/2022 |
| Release price: | -- |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | Technical data sheet |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium Gold 8500 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz |
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AMD EPYC 9654P
96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 7735U
8C 16T @ 4.75 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold 8500
5C 6T @ 4.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6860Z
8C 16T @ 4.73 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-1290P
10C 20T @ 5.30 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Intel Pentium Gold 8500
5C 6T @ 1.40 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.|
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 768G
Qualcomm Adreno 620 @ 0.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-11500T
Intel UHD Graphics 750 @ 1.20 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-1390T
Intel UHD Graphics P750 @ 1.20 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold 8500
Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU) @ 0.80 GHz |
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Intel Celeron 7300
Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU) @ 0.80 GHz |
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AMD A10-8700P
AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri) @ 0.80 GHz |
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AMD A10-5800K
AMD Radeon HD 7660D @ 0.80 GHz |
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Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.|
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Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-9320
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold 8500
5C 6T @ 1.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-10100T
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1034G1
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz |
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